Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

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The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, which ran from 1921 to 1938, was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus for eight weeks of liberal arts study. Conceived as part of the workers' education movement in the 1920s and 30s, the program was the first of its kind aimed at women in the United States. The School is also notable because in 1926, at the suggestion of students and against former College President and SSWWI founder M. Carey Thomas's wishes, Hilda Worthington Smith admitted five African-American students to the summer school at a time when Bryn Mawr College had no Black graduates. This collection includes photographs, mostly donated by SSWWI alumnae/i.

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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Four women standing and one woman seated on a campus lawn. Rae Millman on the left.
Date:
1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Poem written by Rae Millman
Title:
Poem written by Rae Millman
Description:
Typewritten poem by Rae Millman. Inscribed below poem: "edited in Bryn Mawr College Journal in 1925 under my maiden name".
Date:
1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty (?), students, and a young boy posing for a photograph in front of a door.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Miss Smith
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Miss Smith
Description:
Miss Smith is seated on a bench. Students and Faculty can be seen in the background.
Date:
1930-11-23
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Description:
Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt surrounded on each side by students with others looking on in the background. They appear to be outside of a building and in front of a pole.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
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Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
Description:
Three women pose for photograph on the steps in front of a campus building.
Date:
1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty and students posing for a group photograph under a tree in front of Thomas Hall.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Students sitting for a group photograph in the Cloisters.
Date:
1930
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Reunion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Photograph of three reunion attendees, seated on the lawn in metal folding chairs, with two other attendees (one seated, one sanding) visible at the left-hand edge of the photo.
Date:
1984
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Scrapbook page showing students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Scrapbook page featuring five photos labeled (clockwise from top left): Fountain on Library-Cloisters; Dr. GI Palmer, Dr. H. Harley, Miss Gertrude Nafe; The Tennis Courts; Campus and Taylor Hall; Pembroke Arch.
Date:
1929
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Student from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
A student, Miss Francis Franklangia of Worcester, Mass., wearing Italian garb in celebration of the International Peace Festival by the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. Inscribed on back: "students attending the special summer courses at BMC, staged an international peace festival which each nation represented in costume of country. Photo shows Francis Franklangia of Worcester, Mass, who represented Italy."
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Group of women sitting on a campus lawn. Some are holding butterfly nets and others are holding plaques.
Date:
1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Three women seated on the steps in front of archway. One woman stands below archway. Rae Millman seated on second step and wears a band on her head.
Date:
1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Description:
Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt standing on a stoop. Her hand is on her hip and she is looking sideways. Several students appear in the background.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Two women and a man pose for a photograph Inscribed on back: "Yours sincerely, Mark Starr."
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Students sitting for a group photograph in front of a row of trees. Radnor dorm can be seen in the background.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Description:
Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with a student and others looking on in the background. Both Roosevelt and the students are seated in chairs on the lawn and sipping a beverage from what appears to be a plastic cup.
Date:
(approximate)1921 - (approximate)1938
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Faculty sitting and standing for a group photograph in the Cloisters.
Date:
1930
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Title:
Faculty from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
Description:
Three faculty members photographed standing on the lawn in front of a building covered in ivy. They are looking over a note. The inscription on the back of the photograph is "Kate Mandras Bryn Mawr Jean Paul."
Date:
1926
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives
Cloisters, Bryn Mawr College
Title:
Cloisters, Bryn Mawr College
Date:
(approximate)1925
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives

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